the sad part is that i want to prevent them from getting married because it's obviously just making them miserable, and maybe if they didn't get married the world would be spared them taking it out on everyone else

what about Vermin Supreme? He's a tyrant that we can trust, and we should let him run our lives.
He'll give every single citizen a free pony!

it's made it slightly annoying to take those rights away, which to be fair is a damn sight better than it being trivial.

this is why i killed my gender years ago

mastodon literally has all 4 but go off i guess?

sorry but that would just be a meowth impression

Same thing with social media, don't fucking upload things with your kids' faces in them god damnit

yaabadabadoooo!

which is quite possibly one of the most accessible maintenance things in the world

thing is, you're comparing to america. America can't vote their way out of their situation because the whole system is set up to prevent it, it would take decades of dedicated work to undo the conditioning of the populace and start making it even remotely feasible for an actual good candidate to be elected.

Now, that's not to say that america can't vote their way out of things on a local level, that's actually one of the best bets available to them, but still even then Zohran's victory in NYC (which by all accounts was kind of revolutionary) was only with him getting 50% of votes. The democrats did everything they could to keep a notorious sexual harasser in power instead.

i'm assuming he'll just end up being a pretty average european moderate, i.e. absolutely miserable but at least capable of saying (and maybe even believing) the words "killing our own citizens is bad, actually"

Similar to how Zelenskyy's politics are objectively not particularly astounding, but contrasted with the invasion by russia he looks like a holy saint

to be fair they seem to be doing a pretty decent job of getting themselves into jail and ousted from the party